IOS 8 WiFi automatically downloading something in background!

Hi,
My iPhone 6 is automatically downloading something in the background but I don't know what it is. I've turned off automatic downloads, deleted iCloud backup, turned off photo stream, but it seems like it's still downloading something. I can tell this because my 4G Wifi adapter shows I'm downloading something on my iPhone, and this is downloading a lot! It's downloaded over 300MB already in just a few minutes! I have limited Wifi per month and this is wasting a lot of my data!
Can someone tell me what's wrong? How can I stop this background downloading?
The problem does not happen when I connect my mac to my Wifi adapter.

Then unless it is some carrier upgrades that are only sent via 4G wifi and not just wifi, I would use a third party data track app available in the App Store to see which app is making use of it. Check this thread:
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